Tickets go on sale March 28 The Fashion School at 性福五月天 University will present the Fashion School鈥檚 Annual Fashion Show, 鈥淔S虏: Crescendo,鈥 on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30. The show, which highlights the outstanding talents of the Fashion School鈥檚 design and merchandising students, will be held at Rockwell Hall, located at 515 Hilltop Drive in Kent, Ohio. Saturday鈥檚 performance also will mark the induction of designer and business leader Josie Natori into the Fashion School Hall of Fame. For the annual fashion show, fashion students submit work 鈥 ranging from athletic wear t...
Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 性福五月天 University鈥檚 College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. 鈥淢ark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students,鈥 said Todd Diacon, 性福五月天鈥檚 senior vice president for academic affairs an...
March 22, 2016 Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 性福五月天 University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. "Mark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students," said Todd Diacon, 性福五月天's senior vice president for aca...
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USC) have awarded 性福五月天 University a $50,000 micro-grant to help remove the financial barrier to graduation that low-income students may face as they near graduation. 性福五月天 is one of only nine public urban research universities chosen, through a very competitive process, for the grant. The funds are allocated to institutions that are already serving a significant percentage of nontraditional, underrepresented students who are low-income, first-generation, Pell Grant-eligible a...
When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 性福五月天 University, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native of Maple Heights, Ohio, Flowers is collecting money and putting together care packages filled with warm clothing and toiletries for those less fortunate in the Cleveland and Kent areas. 鈥淲hen it gets cold in the winter, there are so many people who do not have proper clothing,鈥 Flowers said. 鈥淚 h...
Work in Progress: Chilled water service in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is 95% complete by EOB on 3/18. Will be ready for cooling system startup on 4/15. Currently insulating the chilled water pipes in the 3rd floor wast mechanical room. Steam reducing station in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is approximately 10% complete. Completed the installation of the temporary roof duct work. Electrical demolition work in the tunnels is complete. Containment is in place for the abatement of AHU #2 in the 3rd floor west mechanical room. Looking ahead: AHU#2 will...
Community members as well as 性福五月天 University faculty, staff, alumni and students are all invited to attend the Faculty Lecture Series, hosted by the 性福五月天 Alumni Association, from March 30 through May 3. Free and open to the public, the events span disciplines from all eight 性福五月天 campuses. Marquita Rodgers, program coordinator of alumni relations at 性福五月天, says the Faculty Lecture Series was created in 2013 to showcase the interests, research and academic talents of the university鈥檚 faculty. 鈥淎ttendees will have the opportunity to learn about the multidiscipli...
The Wick Poetry Center at 性福五月天 University will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akron through the arts. Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders is a partnership between the Wick Poetry Center and the Visual Communication Design program at 性福五月天 to facilitate a global conversation through the intimate and inclusive voice of poetry. The grant will ...